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Re: current directory (...) contains an invalid character (+,>;=\t\n)
From: |
Rolf Krahl |
Subject: |
Re: current directory (...) contains an invalid character (+,>;=\t\n) |
Date: |
5 Mar 2002 22:05:50 GMT |
address@hidden (Larry Jones) writes:
> Rolf Krahl writes:
>>
>> The directory indeed contains a '+' character. With the old CVS, this
>> didn't caused any trouble.
>
> It didn't cause any trouble that you noticed. The file that CVS uses to
> keep track of editing information uses those characters as delimiters,
> so having them in a directory name confuses CVS and makes various edit
> functions not work right, frequently with very obscure error messages.
You mean CVS/fileattr in the repository?
I see (lines manually broken again for better legibility):
| Fassemble.c _watched=;\
| _editors=rolf>Tue Mar 5 15:04:22 2002 GMT+helios+\
| /home/rolf/progs/navier-albert/src/2+3d;\
| _watchers=rolf>tedit+tunedit+tcommit
The file format looks a little bit screwed indeed. :)
> The only change was to provide a clear error message right aways rather
> than planting a time bomb to blow up later.
With the difference that before, it might have caused some single
command to fail, while now, it seems that i cannot use CVS at all for
this project anymore. (No, i don't have the option to change this
directory name.)
--
Rolf Krahl <address@hidden>